Life and work

Zemann was born in 1923 in Vienna and studies mineralogy at the University of Vienna

University of Vienna

The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...

 were he received his PhD for work with Felix Machatschki in 1946. Zemann worked with Martin J. Buerger at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

 in 1951 and 1952. He became director of the Institute of Mineralogy/Crystallography of the University of Göttingen. From 1967 till his retirement in 1989 he was head of the Institute of Mineralogy/Crystallography of the University of Vienna.

Honours

The mineral Zemannite

Zemannite

Zemannite is a very rare oxide mineral with the chemical formula Mg0.5ZnFe3+[TeO3]3·4.5H2O. It crystallizes in the hexagonal crystal system and forms small prismatic brown crystals...

Mg_0,5ZnFe³⁺[TeO₃]₃ • 4,5 H₂O was named after him in the 1960s.